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No. 288,592; Patented Nov. 13, 1883.

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I I OWEN OSBORNE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,592, dated November13, 1883.

Application filed June 6, 1883.

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN OSBORNE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in the Manufacture of Out Stockings, of which the followingis a specification.

One object of my invention is to prevent wastein the manufacture of cutstockings, and a further object is to improve the appearance ofstockings made from tubes of knitted fabric. These objects I attain inthe manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of part of astocking made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a view showing theordinary method of cutting a knitted tube in order to produce such astocking, and showing the waste caused thereby; Fig. 3,

.a diagram showing why this method of cutting is adopted; Fig. 4, adiagram illustrating my improved method of cutting the stockings, andFig. 5 a view showing another plan of carrying out this feature of myinvention.

Inm'aking out stockings'with a barred toe, such as shown in Fig. 1,great waste is caused, owing to the fact that whenthe tube is made withcontinuous transverse stripes, as usual, it is impossible to alternatethe tongues for form-v ing the'feet, as is done in making plainstockings. Thus, on reference to Fig. 3, it will be observed that whenthe tube is cut on the lines. as and 1 to form the tongues a and a onthe stockings A and A, respectively, the bands I) are equidistant fromthe center of the tongue a, and hence are adapted to form abarred toewhen said tongue is folded on the central line, (1; but the bands b onthe tongue at are not in the center of the tongue, and hence cannot forma barred toe on the foot made by folding the latter. I For this reasonthe plan shown in Fig. 2 has been generally adopted in making stockingsof this class, the tongues a a being alternated, as shown, and theshaded portions f being wasted. To overcome this objection,

and produce a stocking with barred toe by the (Model.)

usual method of cutting, without waste, I form in the knotted tube, atthe proper intervals, stripes running but halfway around the tube. Thus,as shown in Fig. 4, a half-stripe, b, is arranged at an equal distanceon each side of the continuous stripe b, one stripe, I), being on onehalf of the tube and the other on the opposite half. When this tube iscut, and each tongue a a folded on the central line, d, each half-stripeb will coincide with half of the stripe b, and the desired barred toewill be produced. The same result may be attained by arranging thehalf-stripes in the manner shown in Fig. 5; but the plan shown in Fig. 4is simpler, and is preferred.

The half-stripes impart a more attractive appearance to the leg of thestocking than stripes extending completelyaround the tube, and hence areof value in this respect, independently of the saving effected incutting the with opposite half-stripes, cutting the tube toform'projecting tongues, and folding said tongues, whereby thehalf-stripes are caused to coincide and form the barred toe, as setforth.

2. A knitted tube having transverse stripes extending only part wayaround the same, said tube being adapted to be cut and folded so thatthe half-stripes will coincide with each other, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

OWEN OSBORNE.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. ASHEN'FELTER, HARRY SMITH.

